After getting home late on a Sunday night after a fishing adventure with no fish, my Uncle said to me, “You need to increase your faith & grace for fishing.” My last few trips had the same result - lots of effort getting ready but...
In Hebrews chapter 11, we see a list of Heroes of the Faith, like Abraham, David, Deborah and many more. These men and women fixed their eyes on God and refused to be moved from what they knew God was doing with them. Some by faith...
EXPECTATIONS – BASE THEM ON WHAT GOD’S WORD SAYS? It’s probably time to move on to another topic so this will for the time being my last blog on expectations. We discussed how expectations are established through experiences and the only way to break the cycle is...
EXPECTATIONS – A TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE? This week I want to discuss further the consequence of wrong expectations with a specific focus. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray He said, ““when you pray, say: “Father””. Jesus referred to God as His father and tells us that...
EXPECTATIONS – WHAT SHOULD THEY BE? We saw last week that what we believe determines what we expect. We also referred to Paul’s instruction to the Roman Church to not be conformed to the pattern of this world, BUT, be transformed by the renewing of our...
EXPECTATIONS – WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND HOW TO CHANGE THEM I concluded my last blog with some questions relating to the topic of expectation. I would now like to relate this back to the topics I addressed last year, those of Love and Unity. If we...
Romans 8:18-21 It is some time since I have written. We have navigated the Christmas, New Year and school holiday seasons and have ventured into 2020. In my previous blogs I discussed two things that were dear to the heart of our Lord Jesus, and thus...
The photo attached to this post gives a quick sense of what I want to say. Before us is something beautiful, wonderful and worth pursuing, but also significantly challenging. Should we look at what is ahead and think it is too difficult, and shrink back,...
The Power of the ‘Fathers’ Anointing ” But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John. And he will go on before...
John 17:20-26 – Unity If you read my last blog you were encouraged to meditate on Paul’s appeal in 1 Corinthians 1:10, “that they agree with one another so there may be no divisions among them, and that they may be perfectly united in mind and...
